Kat Henry Doran/Veronica Lynch: Life For Sale

. . . A sentient, human-like android and his owner race to

stop an insane robot before someone else dies . . .

Wild Women Authors is pleased to feature Life for Sale, a

current fantasy romance release out of the Wild Rose

Press by author Linda Nightingale.

Mayfair Electronics has created life.

But four of their Special Editions—sentient androids indistinguishable from human—have escaped. Rebel, Christian Aguillard and his owner, March, are on the run, but they have a bigger problem than his creator's plan to destroy him. They've discovered that one of the renegades has suffered a dangerous malfunction, threatening them with more than just exposure.

Trapped on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic, March and Christian must stop the insane robot before someone else dies. All the evidence points to March being the killer's next victim.

We recently spent time with Christian Aguillard from Life for Sale. We'll forego the usual routine and let him introduce himself. Hello everyone! I’m Christian Aguillard. I’m a rocket scientist. Please don’t laugh. I am an aerospace engineer, but my job doesn’t define my life. I’m married to a wonderful woman named March, my owner. We don’t have children and never will though we both would like kids. I’m a sentient android created by Mayfair Electronics, Ltd., London. I’d like to say that being an android doesn’t define my life, but I’d be lying. It isn’t about android rights. I discovered the true purpose of Mayfair’s Special Editions in Love For Sale. March and I wrote a sequel, Life for Sale, about our journey since that revelation.

How did you meet March Morgan, since she lived in Houston and you hail from England?

March saw a small classified ad in a women’s journal and booked an appointment to meet the others and me. In the ad, Mayfair discreetly offered “Love for Sale”. She said she was nervous when she boarded a plane to London and even more when it came to signing on the dotted line and almost wiping out her 401K to purchase me.

Since you are sentient and totally human-like, do you have emotions—feelings like the human being you replicate? Yes, very much so. And those feelings can be hurt, just as your feelings can be hurt. For all intents and purposes, we are human.

At birth, a distinct personality is instilled into each of us. When we are adopted, intricate data from a personal questionnaire completed by the applicant is fed into our memory banks, then being incorporated into that personality.

We’re being placed in a process rather like adoption because the populace at large isn’t ready to accept another life form, as it were. If we were public knowledge, there’d be the usual hue and cry, doubtless to say more than the protests against cloning. Companions custom-programmed for love and devotion would threaten the tenuous relationships between men and women everywhere, don’t you think? And the truth—Mayfair never intended us for companions. That was only the test of whether we’d be accepted as human. I almost lost my life when I discovered the true purpose in Love For Sale. In Life for Sale, we take on a powerful new foe—insanity as well as exposure and return to Mayfair to die.

Why didn’t Mayfair launch a high-profile advertising campaign to promote and sell the Special Editions? There must be many who’d love the opportunity to have such a companion programmed for you and you alone. That would be a spoiler for Love For Sale. The real reason we weren’t promoted to the general public is two-fold. We were supposed to prove we could totally pass for human, and the very real fear that we wouldn’t be accepted at all by the populace at large. People might see us as creepy or be threatened—androids taking my job, my girlfriend or boyfriend, husband or wife. It was too risky.

Tell me three words that describe you starting with A, B, and C. Ambitious, Beatiful, and Charming. Beautiful and charming are very subjective, of course. I’ll just take March’s word for it.

Who would you love most to meet 'in person' and why? Ben Skora – He was an American inventor residing in Palos Hills, Illinois who specialized in robotics and electro-gadget automation in homes. He often worked with spare parts obtained from junk yards or discarded by others. In the late 1970s, he built Arok, a humanoid robot that was highly advanced at the time. Arok was able to move in any direction at speeds up to 3 mph, lift 125 pounds and can bend 45 degrees at the waist. The robot could perform routine household tasks, including serving drinks, taking out the trash, and walking the dog.

His home included many of his creations including a drivable motorized easy chair, a soap dispenser that is a retractable hand that comes out of the wall on demand, dressers that slide away to reveal a hallway to another room and a ski slope from the roof.

If you could go back in time, where would you go? Illinois in the late 1970s to meet Ben Skora and Arok.

Will there be more books in your series? Daniel, a brother android created by the same designer, is demanding a book of his own. So, probably yes. Linda is toying with the title of Love for a Song since Daniel is, or was, an opera singer.

What is your favorite part of this book and why? Oddly enough, my favorite part of Life for Sale was a quiet time, but one of the most horrible times. We stood together in the darkness of a moonless night, simply holding each other and letting the disgust of what we’d had to do slide off us.

What is your favorite color? Red with blue running a close second.

What is your pet name for March? I don’t have one. She calls me honey-bunny. Pardon me if I blush.

Do you have a pet? Yes. The cat March had before she and I met. Her name is Mugs. She’s an orange marmalade with long hair and the biggest green eyes.

What’s your favorite place to visit? Because Mayfair is searching for me, I haven’t traveled much. March and I spent a few days in the Turks and Caicos, and it was beautiful. Plenty to keep yourself amused. The snorkeling off Smith’s Reef is spectacular.

If you could relive a day from your past, which day would it be? The day March purchased me. She was so happy and excited. Yet I could read from her body that she was out of her comfort zone. Her happiness infected me, but I’d already fallen in love with her before that module was loaded. In the cab on the way to her hotel, we couldn’t keep our hands off each other. The anticipation and the building passion were amazing. If you’ve ever been in love and known that in minutes you were going to express that feeling for the first time, that’s how I felt. I was a virgin! But we soon remedied that situation.

Thanks, Kat, for allowing me to introduce myself to your readers. It was a pleasure meeting you.

To purchase Life For Sale, go to:

Like Mayfair Electronics, The Wild Rose Press is offering Love for Sale at http://tinyurl.com/nu5jyrl

and at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Sale-Tomorrows-Angels-Book-ebook/dp/B08D2Z5XLC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=life+for+sale+linda+nightingale&qid=1595115169&sr=8-1

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